Airline stewards in the US get a monthly radiation dose waaaaay over what nuclear plant workers and radiation lab workers are allowed to soak, because the high altitude exposes them to gamma radiation. But airline steward radiation exposure is totally unregulated in the US.
Isn’t it anti-communist? I mean, given the place and time that The Twilight Zone was made.
@nostalgia-tblr anti-fascist. Rod Serling was Jewish, and this episode–which is chilling and well worth the watch, it’s insanely well-done–was pretty clearly a reference to the bureaucracy of WWII-era Europe.
It is worth noting that many of the policies it was criticizing, however (such as book-burning), were also utilized by corrupt communist governments like the Soviet Union. So it would be fair to say that what it was calling out was fascism and fascist elements introduced by corruption.
It’s also worth noting that while he had to be very, very clever and subtle about how he did it, Serling did, in fact, write a few episodes that could easily be summed up as “fuck America.” One of the episodes was about racism, and the analogue for White People In Power was a group designed to look like deformed pigs.
Under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, then the suspect was acquitted. This reasoning sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators of the time had noticed that unanimous agreement often indicates the presence of systemic error in the judicial process, even if the exact nature of the error is yet to be discovered. They intuitively reasoned that when something seems too good to be true, most likely a mistake was made.
In a new paper to be published in The Proceedings of The Royal Society A, a team of researchers, Lachlan J. Gunn, et al., from Australia and France has further investigated this idea, which they call the “paradox of unanimity.”
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The researchers demonstrated the paradox in the case of a modern-day police line-up, in which witnesses try to identify the suspect out of a line-up of several people. The researchers showed that, as the group of unanimously agreeing witnesses increases, the chance of them being correct decreases until it is no better than a random guess.
In police line-ups, the systemic error may be any kind of bias, such as how the line-up is presented to the witnesses or a personal bias held by the witnesses themselves. Importantly, the researchers showed that even a tiny bit of bias can have a very large impact on the results overall. Specifically, they show that when only 1% of the line-ups exhibit a bias toward a particular suspect, the probability that the witnesses are correct begins to decrease after only three unanimous identifications. Counterintuitively, if one of the many witnesses were to identify a different suspect, then the probability that the other witnesses were correct would substantially increase.
so…jews argue so much there’s something WRONG if we agree?
When someone’s life or liberty is on the line, then, yes, that is exactly the logic behind this, and that’s it’s better to err on the side of caution rather than condemn an innocent.
You may find this interesting - in any death penalty case (which I’ve explained elsewhere how difficult it is to get the death penalty) there was a panel of 23 judges. The Talmud in Tractate Sanhedrin explains that these 23 are divided into 3 groups. A group of 10 whose responsibility was to find legal loopholes or clear evidence, or faults in the testimony, in order to try and prove the defendant innocent, a group of 10 who would argue against the defendant, acting as a prosecutor, and a group of 3 to make the judgement and decide the ruling. The GOAL was to avoid the death penalty - at almost all costs - and to MAKE argument, because in judaism, when there is argument and debate, we are always more likely to come to the truth.
I saw this, and almost posted it. The paper is basically an academic paper saying “Yeah, that thing Jews have been doing for 3000 years? They nailed it. If we all agree on something, or if all our data is the same massive pile, then…well, maybe there’s something wrong with our detectors, there’s too much noise in reality for all our actual measurements to agree.”
Deep in the Saharan wasted of Chad are a variety of outlet free saline lakes that drain what rainfall there is towards them, the most famous being Lake Chad. They grow and shrink over the millennia, depending on the current vagaries of climate. From space, they can appear like an abstract painting, as in this image of Oiniaga. The prevailing winds are blowing large dust plumes from the surrounding higher ground at the dry lake shore into the basin, creating lines of flying dust, streamers of sediment entering the wet part of the lake and coloured streaks from oxidised iron on the white salt surface of the dry parts.
Chop off the stalks and put some butter inside and roast them upsidedown for like 10 mins til they’re soft
chop up the stalks and an onion and a couple of cloves of garlic and some thyme and fry it all w salt n pepper til its soft n brown
stuff that shit in the mushrooms. coat it in blue cheese (or other cheese I GUESS) and cover in breadcrumbs
roast it for like 5-10 mins til its all melty and brown
(a lot of people seem to add bacon to this kind of thing but that sounds like a way of making men eat a vegetable once in their lives and its good without)
serves: one if you believe in yourself
Shit I forgot to say oven goes at 180C
I know that’s like, the default for most things but still you might burn your ‘rooms!!!
I haven’t done a blue cheese stuffed mushroom but now I feel compelled to. So thank you for thissss.
Another stuffed mushroom option is to take some olive oil, breadcrumbs, Italian seasoning, and shredded parm, mix those all up with the stems, garlic, and onion (if you like onion) and put that in your mushroom caps and bake for a while.
If you’re feeling big cheese festive with your big mushrooms, you can lay a 1/4” slice of fresh mozz over top after the filling has crisped up a bit and bake that til it’s got some nice brown bubbles (400F/200C). Sprinkle some oregano and crushed red pepper on after. Maybe serve on a layer of red sauce.
Should you find yourself with leftover mushroom goodness, add some broth and give it a quick whizz with a stick blender, heat and add some double cream before serving. It makes a great bowl of soup.
I was a professional bellydancer for over a decade.
The focus on gendered talk is one major reason I had to leave bellydance behind. There’s way too much gendered talk in that dance despite that not being its real history and it made me feel very uncomfortable (not to mention the general policing/cattiness aspect, which also rubbed me the wrong way; it was like dealing with cheerleaders/mean girls in high school). Really unfortunate, since I did love the actual dancing.
I think we all need to be a lot more mindful of how we talk about and depict gender. I can’t be the only one in the bellydance community, or other communities, that feels shut out by the gendered talk alone. Even prior to realising I was trans in some capacity, I knew about my own genetic chimerism, and that really makes you feel like you don’t belong *anywhere*. How do I relate both to bellydance as a masculine person, and to fixing cars as a woman? Neither of these things are *actually* about gender, but in our society, we’ve stratified this stuff to the point of insanity.
People often say things like, ‘well my girl loved dolls/boy loved cars and I didn’t teach them anything like that, therefore all boys and girls just naturally do X and Y!’ I’ve heard this used as: an excuse for men to act like shitheads, a way for women to demean each other, all in the name of gender. Like each gender has this *inherent behaviour* that can’t be helped, because it’s instinct. I fight *hard* when someone says, ‘oh of course he’s useless at housework, he’s a man’ or when a woman says, 'I’m disgusted by women who don’t paint their toenails’. This just perpetuates the general horror of gender to the nth degree. And the thing is, even if a parent never spoke a single word to their kid about any of this, indoctrination starts young, all the way down to the blue and pink bassinets.
Parents don’t have to do it. The world will do it for them.
For example, I had bright ginger long hair for a while. I am a model and actress as well as a writer, director, and historian. So most of these style choices were related to filming or modelling (requested/necessary vs. choice of my own). I find that I like having long ginger hair. I also like having short, spiky brown hair. But the number of people who keep demanding why I don’t have long ginger hair anymore is…weird. It gets to a point where you wonder if the way you look is your own choice, or pressure to conform. I even had one model photographer recently say exactly the above-mentioned phrase about painted toenails; when I mentioned that I didn’t do that and it’s not very nice to shame other women,
citing the 'prettiness is not a rent you pay to occupy a space marked female’ quote, she spent ages trolling through my Facebook page in order to point out that ‘since I’ve dyed my hair I obviously care about beauty!’ This also prompted a friend of hers, in the usual Facebook echo chamber, to not only agree with her but to say that she was more concerned about having unpainted toenails in front of other people while she was having her baby at the hospital than she was about people looking at her crotch. This type of performative femininity is insidious, and tends to turn people on each other.
One male friend of mine wrote to me privately and said that he knew I was 'much happier in my femininity’ than I was with short hair/looking masculine because one of my modeling photos (the blonde, fake-cheerful one, commissioned by The Sun) made him think that it was clearly natural that I 'glowed with femininity’. I WAS PAID GOOD MONEY TO LOOK LIKE THAT. This is exactly the kind of bullshit that Christians used to tell me regarding the roles of men and women. The thing is, that photograph was ACTED; it’s probably the phoniest one of me I have. The short-hair photos aren’t 'anger’, that’s what I look like with a straight face if I bow my head a little and look up from under my eyebrows. ie my NATURAL FACE. I’ve always had a terrifying face, or I wouldn’t have the streetfighting reputation I have. It’s amazing what you can do just because you naturally look scary. Ask Christopher Walken. Other friends have told me that they’ve never seen me happier than when I have short hair. But sexism is a powerful thing.
And it’s these things, they aren’t even necessarily mean or meant maliciously, that push you into one box or the other. The shame is hardcore, sometimes. My partner’s mum recently asked why I didn’t have my 'long beautiful auburn hair’ anymore. She’s seen me several times with the short brown hair. She also insists that the new Doctor 'shouldn’t be a woman’ even though she thinks the actress is a good Doctor. I know that sounds small, but it’s death by a thousand cuts, and that’s not even my own parents saying it, but somebody else’s. This is what I mean by 'you don’t have to tell someone you disapprove of them directly if by what you say it’s evident that you disapprove of them in general’.
I think a lot of people don’t have any idea how harmful the language they use can be, and that goes for pretty much all groups I’ve been a part of, including LGBT groups that have a 'trans-enough’ purity test (if you haven’t decided yet, if you won’t admit you’re 'trans’ out loud, if you no longer want to be called 'trans’ after you transition, etc). So there’s a lot going on when it comes to all these things, and I can’t imagine how this makes intersex people feel, let alone everybody else.
